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What one user may consider a software bug, other users may consider to be a useful feature or an intentional consequence of the system's design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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A self-deprecating response when confronted by a bug in the software that one is authored or is introducing to another user.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: humorous
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Affirms the validity of a counterintuitive behavior within a system; it is by design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
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History
Coined by American computer programmer Sandra Lee Harris in 1971 at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Across languages
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